Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare''s England

List of contents

1. Flower power: political discontents in Spenser's flowerbeds; 2. Loving Ovid: Marlowe and the liberties of erotic elegy; 3. Shakespeare's Juliet: the Ovidian girlhood of the boy actor; 4. In pursuit of change: the Metamorphoses in A Midsummer Night's Dream; 5. The trial of Ovid: Jonson's defense of poetic liberty.

About the author

Heather James is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, and President of the Shakespeare Association of America, 2016–2017.

Summary

Addressing early modern scholars, classicists, historians, literary critics and scholars of imitation and adaptation of all levels, this book reveals how the work of Ovid, poet-philosopher of literary innovation and the liberty of speech, catalysed the extraordinary rise of new and audacious poetic forms during the English Renaissance.

Product details

• Authors: Heather James, Heather (University of Southern California) James, James Heather
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781108487627
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48762-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean